Overview

This page is used to collect information about Collaboration tools

Teleconferencing

• Conference calling built into phones
• Meeting room teleconference phones
• Call in teleconference bridges

Video Conferencing

Commercial Solutions

• Microsoft NetMeeting
• Polycom
  • PVX

• Chatzy

Open Source Solutions

• iChat
  • uses AOL buddy list
• Xmeeting
  • only for the mac

Personal web conferencing (desktop sharing)

Commercial Solutions

• Breeze
• Elluminate
• Webex

Open Source Solutions

• Thinkature
  • Free remote hosted service
  • essentially a collaborative white board with text messaging
  • real time peristant workspace...never needs saving
• DimDim
  • Presentation and Document sharing
  • real time collaboration on documents
  • audio and video sharing
  • whiteboard with annotation
  • meeting recording
  • multiuser/multiroom chat feature
  • polls
  • presenters much use Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 1.5 (or later?)
• WebHuddle
  • similar to Thinkature
  • primarily a presentation tool
  • has text and voice chat
• Vyew
  • Can be downloaded and hosted locally
  • Collaborate on Any File Type: PPT, DOC, XLS, PDF, JPG, +
  • Whiteboard
  • desktop or screen shot sharing (for annotation)
• Text chat
• comes with a free call-in number to enable multi-way teleconferencing.

Document collaboration

• Confluence!!
• Writely
• Zoho
  • free document collaboration service...very robust